Christopher, I left your package on the table. See you tonight, he heard his mother telling him before she left in a hurry. He tied his laces, took his backpack and ran into the kitchen. He took the package from the table and got out. Outside, at the shadow of the old oak, they were waiting for him, as they did every morning. Take and eat everything, don't leave a thing. If my mother sees something left, you lick your muzzles, he told them then he left lively for school, leaving the two raccoons enjoy their breakfast.
(Translated by Iuliana Mocanu / University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, MTTLC, year I / Corrected by Silvia Petrescu, coordinator of the translations)Real Fiction is a collective project started in 2013 by Florin Piersic Jr. The concept of Real Fiction continued to exist as a Facebook group, after a volume of stories was published at Humanitas Publishing House. (In July 2022, the group has 8,750 members.) The authors write ultra-short stories, with the texts limited to 500 characters (in Romanian, so the length of the English translation might be a little different) - a flash-fiction exercise on a topic that changes every few days. The group's coordinators are Florin Piersic Jr., Gabriel Molnar, Răzvan Penescu, and Luchian Abel. (Drawing by Adrian T. Roman)
Versiunea în română a acestui text se poate citi aici, în rubrica Ficțiuni Reale. 
